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  Tracking Results in Agriculture and Rural Development in Less-Than-Ideal Conditions: A Sourcebook of Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluation

  World Bank, 2010

  This Sourcebook by the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD), the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) develops a framework for standardising approaches for selecting indicators, and proposes a menu of core indicators for monitoring and evaluating agriculture and rural development (ARD) activities.
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  Adaptation to climate change and desertification: Perspectives from national policy and autonomous practice in Malawi

  Leeds University, 2010

  This paper explores the ways in which the interlinked challenges of climate change and desertification are managed in Malawi.
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  The future research agenda for ICTs, climate change and development

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2011

  A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stages, consider the ways in which people might engage with them in a range of possible future climate scenarios.
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  Adaptation to climate change and managing disaster risk in the Caribbean and South-East Asia

  Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency, Barbados, 2003

  This report is an of the outcome of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados in July of 2003. Presentations made at the seminar were based on six case studies carried out in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia.
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  Biodiversity, climate change and adaptation nature-based solutions from the World Bank portfolio

  World Bank, 2008

  This portfolio review is a report for the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona in October 2008. It provides an update on previous reviews of the Bank’s biodiversity portfolio, which focused on specific ecosystems (forests, mountains, marine ecosystems) and themes (protected areas) as well as previous overviews of the whole portfolio.
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  Measuring Irrigation Subsidies in Andhra Pradesh and Southern India: An Application of the GSI Method for quantifying subsidies

  2011

  In India, as elsewhere, subsidies account for a significant portion of government expenditure. Government subsidies account for 14% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP); among the various subsidies, irrigation subsidies are significant. Assessing the scale of irrigation subsidies is a major challenge.
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  Shaping forest safety nets with markets: Adaptation to climate change under changing roles of tropical forests in Congo Basin

  Science Direct, 2010

  This paper explores the role of markets for Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in facilitating climate change adaptation of local communities in the Congo Basin.
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  Forests and climate change in Latin America: linking adaptation and mitigation

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2011

  This paper examines opportunities for linking climate change adaptation and mitigation in tropical forests, and understanding the influence exerted by adaptation activities on the mitigation potential and vice-versa. Through case-studies in Latin America, the authors explore various approaches and motivations for linking adaptation and mitigation.
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  Belize second national communications to the conference of the parties of the UNFCCC

  2011

  Belize's second national communication to the conference of parties (COP) under the UNFCCC is meant to serve as a snapshot of the nation's status quo as it relates to the effects of climate change on the various aspects of its socio-economic make-up as well as its responses to these impacts.
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  On the brink: Who's best prepared for a climate and hunger crisis?

  ActionAid International, 2012

  Based on new research in 28 poor countries, ActionAid’s report reveals which poor nations are most prepared for the triple crisis of climate change, growing population and rising food prices, and which are burying their head in the sand.

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